Gain a deep understanding of your carbon impact with Arbor's specialized tools. Your roadmap to a greener, more accountable business starts here.
Region-specific Data
Arbor utilizes leading methodologies to create the most accurate assessments possible. Our GRI-licensed carbon calculator focuses on region-specific impacts, ensuring relevancy to your supply chain, while our unmatched secondary data enhances the precision of our calculations.
Precise Data Integration
Arbor’s system automates the life cycle assessment process for products, significantly reducing the time required for impact assessments by up to 90%. With each assessment adhering to consistent guidelines, the potential for biases and human error decreases. This translates to saving 10 hours per impact calculation in comparison to traditional impact assessment methods.
Expansive Data Coverage
Arbor’s platform empowers companies to maintain regulatory compliance and address greenwashing concerns through accurate calculations and communication. This enables you to be legally compliant, ethical in your transparency, and foster trust among stakeholders, customers, and partners. Let us guide you in navigating regulations and establishing the trust your business truly deserves.
Data quality is critical
Ensure compliance and transparency with Arbor's advanced reporting capabilities. Our platform caters to your unique needs - whether that's scope 3 analysis, risk assessment, or evaluating avoided emissions.
What’s a Data Quality Rating (DQR)?
Arbor uses a Data Quality Rating (DQR) where each data point used to calculate an environmental footprint is assessed based on Temporal Correlation, Source Reliability, Geographical correlation, Technological Quality, and Data representation. An overall DQR is then assigned based on the individual data points that make up each node in the supply chain of any given product, process, or service. The final DQR is represented as a graded metric.
What attributes are accounted for?
Arbor assessments account for the supply chain steps from cradle-to-gate, following the EU's Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCRs) established for various industries. The potential supply chain stages taken into account for a given apparel product include Raw Materials, Manufacturing, Accessories, Transport, Packaging and more industry-specific attributes
How does this affect my estimates?
Each piece of data undergoes a strict assessment through Arbor's Data Quality Rating (DQR) system. This ensures that you're getting reliable, verifiable information for each unique data point.
"With a focus on accuracy and efficiency, Arbor’s software streamlines impact assessments. We plan to continue our collaboration through 2023."
Arbor focuses on providing region-specific data, so you're not stuck relying on broad global averages. Alongside this, a robust Data Quality Rating (DQR) system ensures that each data point goes through a meticulous assessment. This system integrates primary and secondary data in every analysis and uses graded metrics for accurate accountability, offering you a more trustworthy and clear picture of your carbon landscape.
Region-specific accuracy
Arbor focuses on country-level and regional averages, providing you with insights tailored to your specific geographical business operations. This specificity leads to more accurate and actionable insights.
Verifiability
Each data point undergoes a strict assessment through Arbor's Data Quality Rating (DQR) system. This ensures that you're getting reliable, verifiable information for each unique data point.
Multi-framework methodology
When it comes to measuring your carbon footprint, Arbor integrates multiple frameworks such as the GHG Protocol and PEFCR. This methodology approach empowers compliance with regulations and measures a product's lifecycle from cradle-to-gate. The added trust of being a GRI-certified platform further solidifies the credibility of the information you receive, making your path towards effective carbon management clearer.
GRI-certified Platform
As a licensed software partner of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Arbor's platform boasts a level of trust and credibility. This association underscores the rigor and compliance of Arbor's carbon measurement methodology.
Compliance
Arbor's methodology is built to not just meet but exceed various industry-specific regulations. By simulating cradle-to-gate product life cycles, it provides actionable insights that can guide you toward effective and transparent carbon management strategies.
Supply Chain Mapping
Arbor’s platform makes it simple for you to map existing supply chains giving you the autonomy to add your data. Add manufacturing details, production locations & more with pre-populated assumptions for each product category.
Benchmarking
Whether you're in procurement, aiming for a competitive edge, or seeking a fair comparison, our platform provides a comprehensive benchmarking tool for products, services, and portfolios.
Actionable Insights
With access to a variety of carbon impact insights, you can visualize and test alterations of a product with features such as scenario analysis, hotspot analysis, and risk analysis. These insights can help to understand what changes can reduce your carbon footprint.
Have more questions?
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Arbor’s region-specific engine performs carbon calculations using data from industry-standard LCA databases, government sources, and peer-reviewed academic reports. We also incorporate data from other publicly available research, sector-specific industry reports, and whitepapers.
What industries do you support?
Arbor’s platform was developed to be able to measure any physical asset in any industry. Arbor has experience calculating products, assets, projects and portfolios across supply chains such as apparel, construction, finance, electronics, agriculture and more.
How long does it take?
The duration of our data processing varies depending on industry specifics and the complexity of the supply chain. In many cases, with all the necessary data provided, our calculations can be as fast as 3 minutes. However, for precise time estimates tailored to your unique requirements, please contact our team. We'll provide a detailed timeline based on your project's industry context and intricacies. Our commitment is to deliver results promptly while upholding the highest data quality standards.
Why should I use Arbor?
Consumers, governments, employees and lenders are all increasingly demanding a focus on Carbon Management. There are over 1,500 climate laws and policies that have been proposed globally, and consumers have been shown to have increased loyalty and higher average order values when the purchase is environmentally friendly. Over two thirds of individuals are more likely to apply, and accept positions to an environmentally sustainable company. With all this demand, the question should be “Why wouldn’t I use Arbor?”
How are you different from your competitors?
Arbor’s Carbon Management platform focuses on accuracy, efficiency and user experience. Traditional Carbon Management methods use global averages and proxy data, whereas Arbor utilizes regional data points specific to your supply chain. Traditional methods can also take months or even years to calculate carbon emissions, where Arbor can calculate in as little as three minutes. Arbor’s platform is consistently praised for its user experience - hear it directly from Varner AS. here.
How can I trust the data I get back?
At Arbor, we go the extra mile to ensure the data you receive is trustworthy. Each data point we use in our calculations undergoes rigorous scrutiny through our Data Quality Rating (DQR) system, which combines primary and secondary data and uses graded metrics for accountability. Our methodology doesn't just meet, but exceeds, industry-specific regulations and incorporates globally recognized frameworks like the GHG Protocol and PEFCR for comprehensive carbon measurements.